"Jona och valfisken" (= Jonah and the whale)
Signed C. Milles and numbered 10/12. Foundry mark OBB Cire-perdue. Bronze, green patina. Height 38 cm (including stone base 48.5 cm).
From the Collection of Forrester Nils and Inga-Lill Hultmark, Torps Estate, Västergötland, Sweden.
Henrik Cornell, "Carl Milles - Hans verk", SAK, 1963, Stockholm. The motif described and compare ill. at p. 91 (the fountain version).
Henrik Cornell, "Milles skönhetsvärld", 1957, compare ill. pl. 26.
Erik Näslund, "Carl Milles - en biografi", 1991, mthe motif described and compare ill. at p. 248 (the fountain version).
"Jonafontänen" was executed in 1932 in Cranbrook. The motif is also exhibited in Eskilstuna and at Millesgården, both in Sweden.